The journal of George Fox, vol. 1 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.Fox, George
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The journal of George Fox, vol. 1 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.
Fox, George
Fox, George, 1624-1691
Next morning I went over in a boat to James Lancaster’s. As soon as I
came to land, there rushed out about forty men with staves, clubs, and
fishing poles, who fell upon me, beating and punching me, and
endeavouring to thrust me backward into the sea. When they had thrust me
almost into the sea, and I saw they would have knocked me down in it, I
went up into the midst of them; but they laid at me again, and knocked
me down, and stunned me. When I came to myself, I looked up and saw
James Lancaster’s wife throwing stones at my face, and her husband,
James Lancaster, was lying over me, to keep the blows and the stones off
me. For the people had persuaded James Lancaster’s wife that I had
bewitched her husband; and had promised her, that if she would let them
know when I came hither, they would be my death. And having got
knowledge of my coming, many of the town rose up in this manner with
clubs and staves to kill me; but the Lord’s power preserved me, that
they could not take away my life. At length I got up on my feet, but
they beat me down again into the boat; which James Lancaster observing,
he presently came into it, and set me over the water from them; but
while we were on the water within their reach, they struck at us with
long poles and threw stones after us. By the time we were come to the
other side, we saw them beating James Naylor; for whilst they had been
beating me, he walked up into a field, and they never minded him till I
was gone; then they fell upon him, and all their cry was, “Kill him,
kill him.”
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